- Knysna 3 ha Smallholding with Log home and Business
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Western Cape,
Eden and Garden Route,
Knysna
- R3 500 000
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- Web Reference: A4.7.2 AGSIR 001
Set in a quiet cul-de-sac, surrounded by agricultural land, smallholdings, with sheep, cows, horses etc.,
Run a log home business and live in one of the largest log timber homes of its kind in South Africa.
The slope from the top is gentle with good water catchment and 3 dams with a large one at the bottom of the property.
With 600sqm roofing on the main house and approximately the same over the stores and sheds, our 60,000 lt of water storage takes only a day's rain to fill, with our well-maintained gutter and pipe system.
The pool carries 55,000lt with piping and pumps to and from the water supply.
The house is on stilts with parking for at least 3 cars underneath the house. Lots of storage space.
From the top of the land and moving down :
First there is a little distance from the servitude road at the top with substantial growth providing a screen of sorts from parts of the servitude road.
The log yard is fenced off with our log fencing. There is a kit log home shell at the top entrance, about 25 sq m with wrap-around covered decking.
The stores and sheds are substantial, fully equipped for log crafting, timber work and dipping timber. There are ample storage facilities including a 100 sq m store and a 16 sq m store side by side. The workshop has three phase power.
Between the store and the main house is a dam, picturesque, especially in summer with the violet lilies.
This house is built on log stilts on top of concrete footings in the traditional and effective Canadian style, with no poles rotting in the ground.
A sophisticated engineer designed bracing system, steels the house against the strongest winds. The roof does not creak.
The logs are hand peeled and hand crafted, every join carefully measured and chiselled with a chainsaw and thereafter bolted together with posidrive, hex nut, roofing style screws (up to 150mm lengths) and 16 mm galvanised steel rods, with an overkill for strength strategy.
The house is supported by 200mm beams. The ground floor sports 40 mm thick pioneer style flooring, while the upper level floor comprises 2 overlapping 40mm boards making the upper floor 80 mm thick, and very solid ,of course, like the whole house itself.
The logs are mostly 180 to 250 mm diameter. Some larger logs have been used, in some places just for aesthetics, and in others, to meet structural strength specific requirements.
The lower floor is open plan kitchen, lounge and dining room with two additional rooms, one an office and the other a bedroom. The bedroom has a basin, a toilet right next door and a glorious outside shower on the deck, with a door directly from the room to the deck and and to shower.
Upstairs there is a large mezzanine, currently used as an open sleeping area, amongst other things, and a large bedroom with en suite bath, shower and toilet. An extra toilet is planned for downstairs in order to afford the bedroom there, an en-suite set up with the shower outside. It is thought best to leave the upstairs mezzanine with choices for the buyer to retain an open sleeping area or partition it off for one or more bedrooms, with the ready supply of timber available for that purpose. (We are able to do the work,if required)
From the upstairs bedroom there are magnificent views from the deck that overlooks the pool. From here one can see as far as Simola on the one side and the sea on the other. There is a trap door on the top deck deck which takes you to a small landing on the roof,with 360 views including the sea and the Outeniqua mountains. The house is almost exactly between the two....with a telescope here, view the stars.
Mornings and evenings are blissfully quiet with most neighbours respecting that quiet time. Noisy machinery is usually shut down after 5 pm, and on weekends and public holidays. For the most part, it is even blissfully quiet and tranquil during the working week as well.
The main house has a steel fireplace, which literally hangs form the solid log ceiling and provides warmth and a cosy ambience despite the huge space in the main, double volume area of the house. A painstakingly sculpted staircase invites you upstairs. Here, in the main bedroom, there is a Lesley Hoets Hot Art ceramic fireplace that says no to cold bedrooms. It is highly energy efficient and low on maintenance, it does not require to be cleaned out very often.
The roof is covered with concrete tiles, with the appropriate sisalation for insulation in the ceiling. The ceiling is made with 20 mm boards that have been secured with the same posidrive roofing screws used in the whole structure.(no nails, hence the strength and sturdiness))The deck facing the large fenced off (our own boma style fencing) pool area, is 18 metres long and 5 metres wide. The deck is covered and is part of the main house.
From the house, the waste water is incorporated into furrows to provide water to the lower land trees of which there are many. The land has also been, and will continue to be cleared, while the sale is in process. This will allow for the indigenous growth to continue to flourish, as it has over the last ten years, since all the weed and etc. was removed
There are paths criss-crossing the land suitable for daily walks, cycles etc. where you feel you may be anywhere in the world surrounded only by trees and bush. There are concrete footings for a second dwelling with a small concrete slab adjacent to it. Next to this is a flat area where clay was laid in preparation for a mini tennis court with a practice wall, all in process, and soon to be completed. (There is space for this to be turned into a full sized tennis court) The clay was dug out of the ground creating a small dam behind the house to be, and court area.(Could easily become a second swimming pool) Good clay lies under the full expanse of the property, but the soil and growth potential is superb.
There are still ample blackwood, pine and black wattle trees on the land and depending on the time of the sale, these may or may not be there. The pine trees have a value in that they can be processed in the well equipped workshop, as with blackwood and even the black wattle from which we have successfully made furniture. The black wattle is excellent for firewood as well, and there is an ample supply at present.
It is thought that there is a spring near the bottom dam, with possible borehole potential. But this has not been scientifically substantiated.
There is an historic cottage (not maintained) behind the main house. It was made with what appears to be the original imported steel from England perhaps, with the early settlers. No facts here, I am afraid, but this can be confirmed with a little bit of research.
The workshop is part of a business and all knowledge of the methods of hand crafting and dipping logs in an eco friendly boron method can be included in the arrangement if the buyer is interested in continuing to expand this property with the ample supply of existing timber, or if the buyer wishes to process further timber.
Both the business and the land are owned by Close Corporations. Buyers choice to take over shares or not.
Size of land: 3ha -
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